Video of the Day | Monster Marijuana 2010

For today's very late Video of the Day, I found this short vid of some big ass plants. Enjoy.

Reefer Madness: Great Propaganda or Greatest Propaganda?

I finally sat down and watched one of the most famous propaganda movies of all time - Reefer Madness. Shortest review ever - great! Reefer Madness  is a hilarious romp through the paranoid and uneducated minds of 1930's America. If you have ever picked up a joint or hit a bowl, chances are you have at least heard, if not seen, this now cult classic.

Made in 1936 as an anti-marijuana propaganda film, Reefer Madness portrays marijuana users as sex crazed and violent drug fiends, on par with the likes of heroin and other hard drug users. The story tells a tale of seedy drug pushers in business suits hunting high school children to get hooked. They bring these kids to Mae's apartment, one of the pushers though she prefers to sell to adults.

This marijuana den is a non-stop party for young and old alike. This good Christian film takes a turn for the decidedly dark when one of the pushers - and marijuana addict - attempts to rape one of the high school girls. This attempted rape causes a chain reaction of events, including a murder, that ends with one man's permanent insanity.

These marijuana smokers also commit hit and runs and have sex like it's the 1970's. To add to the truth of this film, the filmmakers (I use that term loosely) add in accounts of marijuana users ax murdering their families and having group sex. These filmmakers were a church group that made this film to educate parents on the dangers of marijuana use.

To be completely honest, as extreme as these claims are, they are not much more out there than some recent claims.

We all know that marijuana kills brain cells, right? And that was found to be completely true:

Of course, if you don't care about your brain, you have to care about your country...

Both of these claims are untrue, of course. Video one explains itself and any search on marijuana production shows that it is such a widely grown crop domestically that importing would just be too expensive to supply the entire country.

Another great similarity to today's War on Drugs is the importance of protecting the kids. The original title of the film was Tell Your Children and geared at parents. A big chunk of arguments by today's anti marijuana voices want to keep it illegal to protect the children, which is a flimsy argument as well. But I digress...

I definitely suggest watching Reefer Madness  and maybe even picking up a copy cheap somewhere to show around. It is a great film for a night of tokin' and munchin'.

Go Sharkey: Weed Vision

Sharkey here! I have watched Super Troopers numerous times even before I became a stoner. It’s a pretty funny movie sober but its hilarious high! There are things you just can appreciate as much about the movie sober! I guess its one of those things like when you buy a red car then you realize how many other red cars there are around you, or how you never noticed exactly how many slug bugs there are on the road until you get hit for them? Well I realized some things I never noticed about weed until I became a smoker! So I sat down and watched Super Troopers with the bf and noticed in the opening scene that there are 3 different bags of weed used for the opening scene! I am posting the 3 different pictures from the opening scenes below.

In the first picture is where they are being pulled over and they are trying to get rid of the weed so he is handing it back to the kid in the backseat, in this picture the weed looks to be about a quarter and it looks ground up

Here in the second scene is when the cop is at the window showing them the bag they threw out the window, first off the bag is thinner looking (the other looks like a regular ziploc bag) plus they are buds; they aren't ground up.

The third picture is when Mac is speeding by so they zoom out the camera angle and you can see the cop still holding the bag of weed and it is once again in a ziploc looking baggie; however, it is a lot less than the first scene, the last scene looks more like an eighth.

I have NEVER noticed this the 10 times I watched the movie before I started smoking weed. Now it seems like anything weed related jumps at me. Stay tuned more Go Sharkey posts to come.

Video of the Day | Chem Valley Kush Marijuana

While smoking and looking around YouTube, I came across a series of videos featuring ‘reviews’ of sweet weed. Not sure about the seed and weed reviews, but the music choices and gorgeous weed make the videos worth it. Check them out.

If any of you have a video that you think should be featured as the video of the day, please let me know at pop_420@yahoo.com.

Go Sharkey: A Stoner is Born

Sharkey here to introduce myself in the first blog post of mine. I am new to the stoner realm - I know crazy right?!? I was never the kind of kid to try different things as a child because I was too shy. I had always wanted to try marijuana but I never really had an opportunity to do so. Then I met my boyfriend who is a proud stoner. I wanted to try smoking pot with him several times but I was afraid I would cough and then look stupid haha. I know now I totally over thought this! I have seen that everyone coughs even after smoking for quite a long time, something that makes me smile when someone else does it as I don't feel so stupid then! So I FINALLY tried it and here we are! I figured as I move along I could share my newbie experiences and anything that I find interesting I could post here on The Unemployed Stoners. My next blog post I will be sharing my experience the first time I smoked pot so make sure that you bookmark us, check back often for updates and don't forget to go check out our merch site for all your stoner needs!

We Can Change Marijuana Laws

"It is not only his right but also his duty... to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court."
~John Adams

Everybody knows that the point of a jury is to find a defendant either guilty or not guilty, but how many of you know that jurors actually have the power to judge the laws themselves? This is often referred to as the power of jury nullification, and is  unknown to many jurors. When sitting on a jury, the court informs the jurors of their duties and responsibilities, but tends to leave out this unconstitutionally protected power and right of the jurors.

The power of jury nullification is put in place by the Founding Fathers to give the people another protection against tyrannical rule. Throughout history this de facto power of jurors has helped change laws and even lawmakers' attitudes towards certain laws. During the mid-1800's, prosecutors who would bring slavery law abolitionists to court would find an overwhelming difficulty in trying to convict defendants on such charges due to the power of jury nullification. With such a large portion of the American population in the north opposed to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, verdicts of not guilty were many times handed down simply because jurors found the law itself guilty of being unconstitutional. This is also around the time that courts happened to leave the power of jury nullification out of the jury information speeches during trials. When the government passed prohibition into law, prosecutors found themselves in the same predicament. The large amounts of 'not guilty' verdicts being handed down into prohibition cases played a hand in the eventual repeal of prohibition as a law.

What does the power of jury nullification mean for the jurors sitting on trial juries today? It means that since a verdict has to be unanimous, it is possible for one juror to produce a hung jury by simply refusing to convict a person of a law that is unfair or unconstitutional. This, obviously, does not apply to laws such as murder, since it is well understood that the overwhelming majority of the population does agree that laws such as these are very constitutional and in the best interest of the American public. In cases such as some marijuana laws, though, the power of jury nullification is a very important right of each and every juror.

For more information on this, and all other jury powers, please see Fully Informed Jury Association. FIJA is a group dedicated to educating the American people on their rights and powers as a juror, no matter how little information is directly provided with regards to these powers during jury trial cases.

I also want to say that this is not a surefire way to end marijuana prohibition. There are so many ways for us to get active, this is just one small fish in the uphill battle to legalize marijuana. To get active, visit NORML.org for all the information you need to get started.